Sunday, May 2, 2010
Quotes
"Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers."
I'd like to do a song dedicated to maybe a soldier in the army singing about this old lady he dreams about, and hold that machine gun instead, or it could be a cat, maybe... Tryna fall in love with a girl, maybe but - a little bit too scared! That's the problem sometimes, isn't it? I mean they can't really interfere a little bit so they call girls groupies, and they call girls this, and they call passive people hippies, and blah blah woof woof, all down the line. Thats because they're talking nothing love man, that's what's happening. (Woodstock 69, before playing song "Izabella")
"Music is Magic. Magic is Life" (part of the lyrics to an unfinished song - found written on a piece of paper after his death)
"Well, I might be living in the wrong time but I don't go by comparisons. I go by the truthfulness of the whole thing. Forget about comparing, it's the biggest mistake trying to put your ego against the other person's."
"We're not trying to take away the greatness that America is supposed to have, but we're playing it [ Star-Spangled Banner ] the way the air is in America today... The air is slightly static, isn't it?"
"I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair."
"We call it 'Electric Church Music' because to us music is a religion."
"You can leave if you want, we're just jammin' that's all."
"When you die you're just getting rid of that old body."
I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks 'wow, I must have been really great' and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.
We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... Cause there are so many sleeping people.
Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.
"Technically, I am not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion."
I feel guilty when people say I`m the greatest on the scene. What`s good or bad doesn`t matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn`t mean a damn,...
I will be dead in five years` time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
We should only collect enough as where we can pay the expenses from the last town to the next town.
Everybody goes through those stages the first time around, and you'd wear all these different things.
All they did was let me do what I wanted to do, one of them kind of scenes.
I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.
We're tryin' to get a tour of England together now, that's definitely gonna call for another bass player.
I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.
There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.
Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.
Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.
Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.
It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.
I wanted to be listened to. I don't know if they were or not, though.
It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.
It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.
When I finally do get into it, the whole world's gonna know about it.
Maybe I was just feeling all nice and enthusiastic. Wait a minute! I can't take back on that 'cause it is a nice thought.
I found myself in too much of a box situation.
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.
My nature just changes.
The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.
I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, you know, with the destruction and all that.
If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.
They should have not only music, but theatre and selling things, and circuses.
Astro Man says something about living in peace of mind. Well, Astro Man will leave you in piece.
I was just playing loud. They let it bother them, they wouldn't even be around today.
Festivals shouldn't worry about getting so many people. It's a big ego trip now. They didn't do all that kind of mess with Monterey.
I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.
There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.
The way things been goin' lately, I think it's gonna take a lot more time.
A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
I can't feel anything right now because there's a few things that's just happened. I just have to lay back and think about it all.
Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.
Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.
Are these all psychedelic? I don't even know what that word means, really.
I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.
After a while I started getting aware too much of what was going down. It started to bring me down a little bit.
“Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space.”
“Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.”
All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
Jimi Hendrix
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
Jimi Hendrix
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi Hendrix
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Jimi Hendrix
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
Jimi Hendrix
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix
I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
Jimi Hendrix
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
Jimi Hendrix
If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
Jimi Hendrix
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Jimi Hendrix
It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.
Jimi Hendrix
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
Jimi Hendrix
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
Jimi Hendrix
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi Hendrix
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi Hendrix
My nature just changes.
Jimi Hendrix
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Jimi Hendrix
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
Jimi Hendrix
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
Jimi Hendrix
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi Hendrix
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Jimi Hendrix
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Jimi Hendrix
We have time, there's no big rush.
Jimi Hendrix
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Jimi Hendrix
When I die, just keep playing the records.
Jimi Hendrix
When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix
When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
Jimi Hendrix
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
Jimi Hendrix
You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.
Jimi Hendrix
You have to give people something to dream on.
Jimi Hendrix
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Jimi Hendrix
I'd like to do a song dedicated to maybe a soldier in the army singing about this old lady he dreams about, and hold that machine gun instead, or it could be a cat, maybe... Tryna fall in love with a girl, maybe but - a little bit too scared! That's the problem sometimes, isn't it? I mean they can't really interfere a little bit so they call girls groupies, and they call girls this, and they call passive people hippies, and blah blah woof woof, all down the line. Thats because they're talking nothing love man, that's what's happening. (Woodstock 69, before playing song "Izabella")
"Music is Magic. Magic is Life" (part of the lyrics to an unfinished song - found written on a piece of paper after his death)
"Well, I might be living in the wrong time but I don't go by comparisons. I go by the truthfulness of the whole thing. Forget about comparing, it's the biggest mistake trying to put your ego against the other person's."
"We're not trying to take away the greatness that America is supposed to have, but we're playing it [ Star-Spangled Banner ] the way the air is in America today... The air is slightly static, isn't it?"
"I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair."
"We call it 'Electric Church Music' because to us music is a religion."
"You can leave if you want, we're just jammin' that's all."
"When you die you're just getting rid of that old body."
I don't really live on compliments. As a matter of fact, they have a way of distracting me. I know a whole lot of musicians, artists out there who hears the compliments and thinks 'wow, I must have been really great' and so they get fat and satisfied and they get lost and forget about their actual talent and start living in another world.
We want our sound to go into the soul of the audience, and see if it can awaken some little thing in their minds... Cause there are so many sleeping people.
Anybody can do anything, it's up to themselves. All it takes is the right intentions.
"Technically, I am not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion."
I feel guilty when people say I`m the greatest on the scene. What`s good or bad doesn`t matter to me; what does matter is feeling and not feeling. If only people would take more of a true view and think in terms of feelings. Your name doesn`t mean a damn,...
I will be dead in five years` time, but while I am here, I will travel many highways and I will, of necessity, die at a time when my message of love, peace, and freedom can be shared with people all over the world.
I guess it would be if I wanted to, just lay back and predominantly write songs when I can't go on a stage anymore.
We should only collect enough as where we can pay the expenses from the last town to the next town.
Everybody goes through those stages the first time around, and you'd wear all these different things.
All they did was let me do what I wanted to do, one of them kind of scenes.
I have to get involved in my own kind of way 'cause I always want to respect my own judgments. I have to respect my own time.
We're tryin' to get a tour of England together now, that's definitely gonna call for another bass player.
I think it would count more, if we did less personal appearances.
There was a period when I stopped talking so much, because I was just going through certain things. I just did the gigs and just stayed in, tried to stay away.
Sometimes the music people put you into these big, rush things.
Some people should just start ideas and other ones should carry them out.
Promotion with my name only, that's all I have to do with it.
It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.
I wanted to be listened to. I don't know if they were or not, though.
It's really hard to know what people want around here sometimes.
It's not really into the big mass movement in music that I want to do, you know.
When I finally do get into it, the whole world's gonna know about it.
Maybe I was just feeling all nice and enthusiastic. Wait a minute! I can't take back on that 'cause it is a nice thought.
I found myself in too much of a box situation.
With any new civilization... they have to have their own officers and police and governments and all that.
My nature just changes.
The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
In World War II all these countries were completely against each other, complete opposite. Now we're getting them all together, through the idea of music.
I didn't know it was anger until they told me that it was, you know, with the destruction and all that.
If I had anything to say I'd have a say to everybody.
They should have not only music, but theatre and selling things, and circuses.
Astro Man says something about living in peace of mind. Well, Astro Man will leave you in piece.
I was just playing loud. They let it bother them, they wouldn't even be around today.
Festivals shouldn't worry about getting so many people. It's a big ego trip now. They didn't do all that kind of mess with Monterey.
I was thinking too fast. It seems like a person has the tendency to get bored, because he always wants to try to do all these accomplishments.
There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.
The way things been goin' lately, I think it's gonna take a lot more time.
A person would have to change himself in order to be a living example of what he's singing about.
I can't feel anything right now because there's a few things that's just happened. I just have to lay back and think about it all.
Spiritually, it's always there. It gets better and better all the time. One of these days I'll just finally release all that out.
Be respected as being new, and probably a decent change or a help for the human race or whatever, instead of keep carrying the same old burdens around with you.
Are these all psychedelic? I don't even know what that word means, really.
I believe everybody should have a room where they get rid of all their releases. So my room was a stage.
After a while I started getting aware too much of what was going down. It started to bring me down a little bit.
“Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space.”
“Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.”
All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.
Jimi Hendrix
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.
Jimi Hendrix
Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.
Jimi Hendrix
Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually.
Jimi Hendrix
Every city in the world always has a gang, a street gang, or the so-called outcasts.
Jimi Hendrix
Excuse me while I kiss the sky.
Jimi Hendrix
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix
I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
Jimi Hendrix
I have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
Jimi Hendrix
I try to use my music to move these people to act.
Jimi Hendrix
I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.
Jimi Hendrix
I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
Jimi Hendrix
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix
I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.
Jimi Hendrix
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix
If I'm free, it's because I'm always running.
Jimi Hendrix
If it was up to me, there wouldn't be no such thing as the establishment.
Jimi Hendrix
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Jimi Hendrix
In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
Jimi Hendrix
It all has to come from inside, though, I guess.
Jimi Hendrix
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
Jimi Hendrix
It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
Jimi Hendrix
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi Hendrix
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is a safe kind of high.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
Jimi Hendrix
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
Jimi Hendrix
My nature just changes.
Jimi Hendrix
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.
Jimi Hendrix
See, that's nothing but blues, that's all I'm singing about. It's today's blues.
Jimi Hendrix
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
Jimi Hendrix
The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
Jimi Hendrix
The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
Jimi Hendrix
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
Jimi Hendrix
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
Jimi Hendrix
We have time, there's no big rush.
Jimi Hendrix
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Jimi Hendrix
When I die, just keep playing the records.
Jimi Hendrix
When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
Jimi Hendrix
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Jimi Hendrix
When we go to play, you flip around and flash around and everything, and then they're not gonna see nothin' but what their eyes see. Forget about their ears.
Jimi Hendrix
White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
Jimi Hendrix
You have to forget about what other people say, when you're supposed to die, or when you're supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.
Jimi Hendrix
You have to give people something to dream on.
Jimi Hendrix
You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.
Jimi Hendrix
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